by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Oct 17, 2023 | Agriculture, Crime and Courts
“Woodville’s history is a series of layers, and one of those layers was the 1960s and 70s when the hippies came to the community,” said local historian Misty Hitt Wright whose family ties to the village date back to the 1840s. Beginning in the mid 1960s, William Lane...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Oct 6, 2023 | Business
Ed Gannon Inn general managerPrior to coming to Little Washington, new Inn general manager Ed Gannon helped launch a 700-acre resort in California’s Napa Valley. Ed Gannon, The Inn at Little Washington’s new general manager, is taking on the storied enterprise’s most...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Oct 6, 2023 | Art, Local Services, Politics
Washington’s Architectural Review Board unanimously endorsed the sweeping expansion design advanced by the town’s chef and innkeeper, Patrick O’Connell, after a succession of residents said they trusted that the new and revised buildings wouldn’t overwhelm the quiet...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Sep 27, 2023 | Art, Crime and Courts, Politics
If not for Ben Raines, the world wouldn’t know one of the most dramatic stories of the last 163 years. In 2018 upriver from Mobile, Ala., this former journalist discovered the wreck of Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach our nation. Moment of...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Sep 8, 2023 | Agriculture, Crime and Courts, Politics
Rapp son Ben Raines dives into river, discovers ship shards Ben Raines, author of “The Last Slave Ship,” is coming to Little Washington Theatre on Sept. 16 to discuss the story of the criminal transport of slaves to the United States in 1860, and his own discovery of...
